@Idont: "Anyone know how to make a field which will allow you to select and copy text (via Ctrl-C or right-click and Copy) to clipboard, but
not change it?"
    @alexross: "1) selectable but not editable:  set the field's editable property to true,
then add a behavior to the field:
on keyup me
  nothing
end
2) copyable: there is a setting you can set to true or false via lingo which
allows for ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-x but I can't remember what its called.  Its
there though
Alexander Ross
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text (via Ctrl-C or right-click and Copy) to clipboard, but"
    @Idont: "<quote>
Yeah, I figured that part out...
Herein lies the crux of the question.  Selecting the text has no purpose unless you can then copy it and paste into something
else..."
    @Idont: ""Alexander Ross" <email_address> wrote in message news:bgueg7$sce$<email_address>
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Okay, so I put this in a frame script:
if the CommandDown and keyPressed("c") then
   stuff = member(sprite(the keyboardFocusSprite).member).text
end if
Now the contents of the text sprite are sitting in a variable called "stuff" when you press Ctrl-C.  Next step is to get them onto
the clipboard so they can be pasted into another program.  The copyToClipboard function does not seem to do it.  That looks like
it's made to copy entire sprites instead of just text.  Anyone tell me how to manually access the system clipboard this way?"
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